A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
JAMES MADISONReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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